Maria R
Senior Associate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria R is a platform engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and APIs, currently a Senior Associate at Arrowstreet Capital. She designs and ships high-volume services with comprehensive monitoring and automated workflows, leveraging Python, Node.js, and TypeScript in distributed cloud-native environments. At IBM she delivered enterprise platforms and AI-powered automation that cut manual processing from days to minutes, and she contributes to open-source UI work—improving search functionality and tests for the kubernetes-sigs/kui project. Passionate about using data to inform decisions, she’s deeply interested in big data, machine learning systems, and recommendation engines and how backend architecture enables personalized experiences at scale. Beyond production engineering, she mentors developers and teaches programming to youth, reflecting a long-standing commitment to technical education and collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Immersion Program, Computer Science, Summer Immersion Program, Computer Science at Girls Who CodeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMAST Academy
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (11)
electron10
patternfly10
react10
test-automation10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript9
cli8
plugin8
dashboard7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kui
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
A hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 commits, 32 PRs, 14 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily contributed to the development and testing of the search bar functionality within the Kui UI. They implemented the search bar using PatternFly components and wrote extensive tests to verify its behavior, including opening/closing actions, focus management, paste functionality, and results display. Furthermore, they updated the test suite to validate the results counter, navigation arrows and close button. The user's work also involved addressing issues related to existing search bar functionalities.
visualizationelectronnative-developmentui-developmentkubectl
mra-ruiz/kui
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
A hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
Contributions:203 pushes, 57 branches in 1 year 2 months
configuration-languagenative-developmentui-developmenthybridodk
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